If you are in need of drug data and drug product information to support your clinical support system (ie EHR, EMR, HIS, etc), you need to ask the right questions. There are only a few medicine list providers and the drug data they provide is somewhat similar in broad strokes (although some stand out in certain areas: Lexi-Comp is by far the best provider of pediatric dosage information and pediatric calculators).
Given that this is likely to be a long term relationship, you must look at the less obvious and the intangibles. Will they lock in your price over a longer term contract? Do they provide affordable APIs to tie into your system, if that is your preference? Will they be flexible in working to solve your problems and the problems of other partners that you might be working with? Will they work to solve some of the growing complex issues dealing with drug classification, interoperability, and drug nomenclature?
Things are getting a little crazy out there with all of the scrambling around certification requirements and speed to certification. Recently, some vendors have opted not to develop their own eprescribing module in the short term for fear that it might get hung up in a protracted approval process. Instead, they have elected to go with nimble and responsive eprescribing vendors such as DoseSpot. My advice is to make sure you are comfortable with your partner. If they are not flexible to work with now, think of how it will be down the road.
Given that this is likely to be a long term relationship, you must look at the less obvious and the intangibles. Will they lock in your price over a longer term contract? Do they provide affordable APIs to tie into your system, if that is your preference? Will they be flexible in working to solve your problems and the problems of other partners that you might be working with? Will they work to solve some of the growing complex issues dealing with drug classification, interoperability, and drug nomenclature?
Things are getting a little crazy out there with all of the scrambling around certification requirements and speed to certification. Recently, some vendors have opted not to develop their own eprescribing module in the short term for fear that it might get hung up in a protracted approval process. Instead, they have elected to go with nimble and responsive eprescribing vendors such as DoseSpot. My advice is to make sure you are comfortable with your partner. If they are not flexible to work with now, think of how it will be down the road.
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